The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-13


church at Ridge Spring. s,q-i
Crops in Spartanburg county are in first
class condition, and have never been better
at the opening of harvest. II
Allen w. Heath, of Lancaster, threw the
first shovel OF earth on the Georgia, Caro-
lima and Northern railroad
w. p. Calhoun, young lawyer of Able
vile, will probably be a candidate for So
hcitor of the Eighth Circuit.
The negroes who left Union county last
winter for Arkansas have been heard from
and they are anxious to return.
. A negro woman at Winnsboro, gave birth
to@twins; one of them was~without nose or
ears. 1t died shortly after birth.
Editor HemphiHs, of the Abbeville
Medium, wants some old-fashioned corn
field beans, for which he will pay good
price.
The South Carolinaroad is to be requested
to put draw in their bridge over the Con
garee, SO that steamboats, can pass up to Co
lumbia
Company K, Fifteenth South Carolina
Volunteers, will have have a reunion at Mt.
Carmel, on the Savannah Valley railroad,
Aug. "a.
Jack. Jennings, of Edgefeld, has stalk of
cotton with a top root thirty-two inches
long, while the stalk itself was only twelve
inches high.
Harrison Cox, who lives near Reid post
office has two porkers of the Berkshire and
Red Jersey breeds 10 months old which will
net $50 pounds each.
| Rev William Richardson. for the past
eighteen months principal of the colored
mission school at Winnsboro, has returned
| to his home in Delaware.
| Work is going on industriously at the
Glendale gold mine; twenty-six hands are
| being worked. Last week a rich and prom
ising vein at forty feet was struck.
The Chester division of the survivors of
| the old Sixth Regiment South Carolina vol
unteers contemplate celebrating the reunion
by an excursion to Petersburg, Va.
j. j. Gilmer, of Anderson, lost fine cow
last Monday. She became entangled by a
rope with which she was tethered, which
caused her to fall and break her neck.
A tenant on P. H. Walkers place, in
Chester county, recently found happy
family, as it were, of snakes, made up of
coachwhips, black snakes and moccasins.
| 1t is runored that the discussion of the
prohibition question at Mt. Tabor church,
in Pendeton township, last Saturday came
near breaking up the meeting i'll general
| row
Harrison Garrett, of Dowok, says he has
| been living at the same place he now lives
| for forty-nine years, and that there is less
| fruit on his place now than there has been
before in that time.
| Newberry has decided by vote of 1893 to
| 81 to subscribe $4,000 to the Columbia,
| NewbeTry and LaurenS railroad. The
county commissioners have reserved their
decision on the matter
| w. A. Cheeky, farmer who resides near
Aiken, shows a bunch Of red rust-proof
oats, about 3 feet high, containing tifty-two
stalks, well headed. This large number of
stalks all sprang from one grain of seed.
A little daughter of Trial Justice Kyser.
of Lexington, swallowed a silver quarter of
dollar. DR.. Hendrix made efforts to ex-
| tract it, but was unsuccessful. She seems
| to suffer little inconvenience from the I'M
usual bon bon.
A. j. Syphert, of Orangeburg, has relic
in the shape of a brass tube that held the
friction primers in a torpedo. Some of the
powder from the torpedo to which it be-
longed burnedgreadily, although it had been
| i'll the water over twenty years.
! Ex-Sheriff J. H. Mcconnell has a fine
specimen of mica obtained on his place a
! few miles from Anderson. HeSis5 forres-
ponding now with the view of mining and
marketing the mineral. He can now get it
out in sizes and shapes that makes itIworth
from SO to IS a pound. z
Augustus J. Sitton, President of the
| Autun cotton mills, has purchased from
William Canes, for "a, 800, the water power
on the Laurens side of the Saluda river
| known as Wares Shoals. on which he con-
| templates erecting s., 900 cotton mill. The
| shoals are ten miles southeast of Honea
| Path.
Maj. T. F. Anderson, of Williamson, lost
| his carriage house by fire last Wednesday
| night. A buggy, wagon, harness and a lot
- lao, Ic11 SDf
cotton were saved in a damaged condition.
Maj. Anderson thinks the fire was caused by
| lightning, but others think it was of incen-
| diary origin.
Rutherford county is to have a new cotton
mil. The company will go to work at the
| building at once. The stock now subscribed
is 100000, but they propose to increase
this. The factory will be situated on Little
| Broad river, about twenty-five miles from
| Spartanburg, and near the crossing of the
two railroads from Shelby to Rutherford
| ton.
Mr.. A. n. Wheeler, Treasurer of New
| berry county, made settlement of taxes
| with the Comptroller General Friday. Total
State tax charged, $50, $40 90; commissions,
| $40 50; abated by Comptroller General,
Sll6 Is; nulla bona, $173 81; State tax de-
linquent, S44 II, and Treasurer's costs on
same, So so; paid State Treasurer, $50, 331 so;
refunded County Treasurer, 1854 "a
Joshua Howard, who lives near the sum-
NIT of CLASSY Rock, and has figured re-
peatedly as witness in the blockade whisky
| cases at Greenville, was shot from ambush
while at work in field near his home on
Wednesday He was struck and wounded
in four places and is in a critical condition
1t is supposed that the shots were fired by
moonshiners, who suspected Howard of ''in-
forming" against them.
The special referee, T. Q. Donaldson, an
nounced his decision Friday in the case of
Beard, Long & Co, machinist, against the
Greenville City Council, for repairs to the
Lee steam fire engine The decision is for
the plaintiffs, and awards them the whole
amount of the claim, S477, and s33 dam
ages besides for the delay in payment of the
account. City Attorney Williams said that
it was very probable an appeal would be
taken.
The services in Trinity church at Column
/ bia Sunday were brought to sudden and
untimely conclusion There are number
of gas jets around the several columns in the
church, and about eight feet from the floor.
These are properly turned off or on by cocks
at the foot of each column, but the last time
the lights were extinguished the gas was
turned off at the meter. That morning, by
some accident the gas was turned on at the
meter, and in about tenminutes after the
services began the edifico@as filled with gas,
and the large congregation had to be hastily
dismissed.